RE: CONST vs. VALUE

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's what I guessed.  I never thought that changing a value passed in as
VALUE was a big deal.  :)  It's usually an input only parm anyhow.

Brad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Mildenberger [mailto:Smildenber@Washcorp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:17 AM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: CONST vs. VALUE
> 
> 
> Brad,
> 
> CONST means that the procedure you are calling is not allowed 
> to change the
> parameter.  I'm not sure if this should be specified when 
> calling system
> functions or not.  If the procedure is one you have written 
> then you will
> get a compile time error if you attempt to change a parm that 
> is defined as
> CONST.  I prefer to define my parms as CONST instead of VALUE so the
> compiler will tell me if I'm trying to change one.
> 
> Scott Mildenberger
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:23 AM
> > To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: CONST vs. VALUE
> > 
> > 
> > What's the difference between using CONST and VALUE on ILE 
> > parm lists?  I
> > have always used VALUE.  It seems to do the same thing as CONST.
> > 
> > ie:
> >  D QCmdExc         PR                  ExtPgm('QCMDEXC')       
> >  D                              256    Options(*Varsize) Const 
> >  D                               15  5 Const     
> > 
> > Just wondering.
> > 
> > Brad
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